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The Liquid Continent Nicholas Woodsworth

The Liquid Continent By Nicholas Woodsworth

The Liquid Continent by Nicholas Woodsworth


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Summary

Published to critical acclaim in 2008, Nicholas Woodsworth's Mediterranean Trilogy is now available in a single paperback edition. Combining travel narrative, history and reflection on contemporary Mediterranean life, the author begins in Alexandria before visiting Venice and Istanbul.

The Liquid Continent Summary

The Liquid Continent by Nicholas Woodsworth

This omnibus edition brings together the three books of Nicholas Woodsworth's critically-acclaimed Mediterranean Trilogy in a single volume for the first time, allowing the reader to fully appreciate the scope of Woodsworth's search for a distinctively Mediterranean 'cosmopolitanism'. Combining travel narrative, history and reflection on contemporary lives and cultures, Woodsworth finds an intimacy, a garrulous warmth and a near-tribal sociability as he travels from Alexandria, through Venice and finally installs himself in a former Benedictine monastery in Istanbul overlooking the Golden Horn. Responding to this experience, he argues that the sea should not be seen as an empty space surrounded by Europe, Asia and Africa, but as a single entity, a place from whose coastlines people look inwards over the water to each other, for it has its own cities, its own life, its own way of being.

The Liquid Continent Reviews

'[Woodsworth's] enchanting journey around the old seaports... a Mediterranean trilogy to cherish' The Guardian 'An astute reporter with a dry humour and an impressive eye for detail' Sunday Telegraph

About Nicholas Woodsworth

Nicholas Woodsworth is the former Africa correspondent of the Financial Times. He is now a writer, freelance journalist and photographer living in France.

Additional information

GOR002181079
9781906598754
1906598754
The Liquid Continent by Nicholas Woodsworth
Used - Very Good
Paperback
The Armchair Traveller at the Bookhaus
2010-08-17
420
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This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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